I ordered this replacement battery for my Pinebook Pro and it won't charge. The laptop will power on with the new battery, the OS correctly identifies when it's plugged in, but the charge light blinks red and the charger (USB-C or barrel) doesn't draw any discernible power from the wall. Charging works as expected with the old battery plugged back in.

I notice that the old battery has a white wire in the center of the connector, while the new one does not. The second suspect thing is that the new battery is 33g lighter than the old.

Any thoughts on this? Does this missing white wire indicate a problem was inevitable, or could I have just gotten a bad battery? I have sent a message to the seller but haven't heard back yet.


Thank you!

Every day we’re auto-building Apache NuttX RTOS for Ox64 BL808 RISC-V SBC... Can we test NuttX on Ox64 automatically after building?

Yes we can! With a little help from the Ox64 BL808 Emulator that we created last week. In this article, we fill in the missing pieces of our Ox64 Emulator and run it for Automated Testing...

(1) Booting NuttX RTOS in Supervisor Mode (instead of Machine Mode)
(2) Emulate OpenSBI for setting the System Timer
(3) Emulate the UART Interrupts for Console Input
(4) Execute everything with Expect Scripting (based on TCL)
(5) Which becomes our Daily Automated Testing (triggered every day by GitHub Actions)

Here's the article:

Automated Testing with Ox64 BL808 Emulator (Apache NuttX RTOS)

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Is anyone else having an issue with the Pinebook Pro with Debian 12 installed draining battery even when powered off.  In order to keep it charged I must keep it plugged into the USB Type C charger.

What is the state of USB Type C DiplayPort out on Debian 12 for the Pinebook Pro?  It seems like all the required kernel modules are loading, but it doesn't work.  Is this a Debian 12 kernel issue or a U-Boot Issue?

In olden times we had Computer Games (plus Operating Systems) on 5.25-inch Floppy Disks. And we’d boot the Floppy Disks (clackety-clack) on Apple II Computers with 64 KB RAM.

Today (40 years later) we boot microSD Cards (clickety-click) on Ox64 BL808 RISC-V Single-Board Computers with 64 MB RAM.

What if we could turn it into a Virtual Ox64 SBC that boots in our Web Browser? Exactly like an Emulated Apple II!

In this article we…
(1) Take Apache NuttX RTOS precompiled for Ox64 (Without any modifications)
(2) Boot it on the TinyEMU RISC-V Emulator
(3) Create our own Emulator for Ox64 SBC (With minor tweaks to TinyEMU)
(4) And run everything in our Web Browser (Thanks to WebAssembly)

Here's the article:
Emulate Ox64 BL808 in the Web Browser: Experiments with TinyEMU RISC-V Emulator and Apache NuttX RTOS

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Hi everyone, I'm putting my ANSI PineBook Pro up for sale.

• Perfect working condition
  
• Excellent cosmetic condition
  
• Only lightly used
  
• Fresh install of Manjaro Mate
  
• Clean
  
• The only thing missing is the power adapter. (The adapter was DoA but USB-C charging works fine.)
  
• Asking $200 which includes UPS shipping
  
• PayPal
  
• Prefer to ship US only
  

I'm about to order the PineBuds Pro.
I am missing the following information:

1. Which OSes are out there yet?
2. Which OS is preinstalled?
3. How do I flash OSes?
3. How do I check which OS is installed and which version?

Can somebody help? Thank you!

I have 2 PBPs that I sometimes do a lot of compiling with.

One is from 2020.  I never used all 6 CPUs when compiling, or if I did, I throttled the two faster CPUs: due to the problem of using more power than the power supply can supply.

The other is from 2023 (or was it 2022?) and has the improved charging circuit.  I used this one the same way, because, if I use all 6 CPUs unthrottled, it will overheat and reboot.  For some reason, I thought this was just a shortcoming of this SOC.

But recently I did some short runs using full power on the 2023 model (not getting it hot enough to reboot), and I accidentally used the same configuration on the 2020 model.  I found out that, except for the expected battery depletion, the 2020 one never overheats and reboots.

Does anyone else have a newer one that overheats like this?  Or have I been dealing with a flaky PBP all along?

Since I got my pinephone early last year, any attempt at installing packages from discover has resulted in an error message popup saying "<pkgname>;<version>;aarch64,extrra: could not find or read package" when browsing to the application profile page.

All packages are also listed as 0b.

Sometimes images don't load.

Is there something I need to do, or should I be using a different OS?

I am currently using Pinephone "convergence edition" with manjaro beta 15.

Thanks.

I'm at my wits end, hopefully someone here can help me. So I purchased a Pinebook Pro some time ago, it's generally been a faithful machine, and satisfied my desire to move from x86_64 to aarch64 in the laptop realm. I've thus far resisted the urge to roll my own Linux install on the thing, instead faithfully sticking with the Manjaro that was installed when I got it, save for updates here and there. Needless to say, the thing is still very stock, only having accumulated whatever updates Manjaro has pushed for it, along with some of my own tools for retro console programming and a few other supporting utilities.

The problem plaguing me is being able to also use this laptop as a desktop by plugging in a monitor. The hardware itself does not contain a standard video port of any kind, which seems to be par for the course with laptops these days, so can't really fault Pine for following this awful trend. However, where things fall apart is trying to use any sort of USB dongle or dock which purports to expose video through the USB-C port.

I tried a few dongles that work with my work-assigned Macbook Pro, also over USB-C, thinking that would be fine, but no dice. Got to reading and apparently there are multiple standards for how to do this thing, and a lack of transparency by vendors, so it's a crapshoot getting a device that actually works. So I decided to avoid this whole mess and went straight to the source, I purchased the official Pinebook Pro Docking Deck, thinking this would be the end of my misery. Surely the dock sold by the vendors of the laptop would be plug-and-play, right? Wrong. I've had no luck, even with the vendor supported device, getting anything resembling video output from this thing. I can get all the other parts of the dock to play nicely, such as the USB ports, SD card slot, and audio port. The only thing that I can't get to work is the one thing I bought it for: external video.

Does anyone have any pointers, ideas, anything at all? Forum posts I've read here have unfortunately been largely unhelpful as they're either targeting some third-party component (which I've already accepted aren't going to work) or they're full of advice like "Did you try turning the symmetrical-by-design USB-C connector 180 degrees" which, given USB-C is supposed to work both ways, seems like a non-starter. I've also tried to install the "linux-pinebookpro" package in Manjaro that a few threads I've read suggested, that package isn't even found in the stock repos on Manjaro (again I haven't royally changed the base install, just kept up with updates on the same install that the device shipped to me with.)

Anywho, to summarize, does anyone know how to go about getting HDMI (or VGA!) video out of a Pinebook Pro when plugged into the first-party standard Pinebook Pro Docking Dock? I can accept third-party devices not working, but the fact that I can't even trust the first party one has me honestly a bit irked. This is really the only thing that for what feels like two years now has prevented me from finally taking this computer on as my daily driver, I can only use it through the built-in screen despite ordering what should be the absolute correct device for the job.

Let me know if a dmesg trace or any system information is needed, I've built several Linux systems up from scratch on a few different architectures, so I have a pretty good idea of where to look for symptoms of a problem.